Presidential 2022: Montebourg says he has “poorly expressed” on the blocking of money transfers to countries – franceinfo

“I understood that I had misspoken.” Presidential candidate Arnaud Montebourg regretted, Monday, November 8, a “incomprehension” after his controversial remarks in favor of a possible blocking of private money transfers to countries that refuse to welcome their nationals targeted by an expulsion measure.

“I wanted to target the States, I do not want to touch these families who work hard, send money to their families on the other side of the Mediterranean”, he insisted on LCP.

.@montebourg returns to his proposal on money transfers. “I meant, ‘Now we’re going to have to hit the wallets of the States,” he said.
> “I did not want to target people, I wanted to target States (…) They are the ones who are involved.”#PublicHearing pic.twitter.com/fUIE4f7YMB

– LCP (@LCP) November 8, 2021

“I felt a lot of emotion, a lot of emotion, in my own friends, in my family, some practice this support, this mutual aid across borders. (…) I got yelled at by people. that I love”, said the former Socialist Minister of the Economy.

“I wanted to say: now we will have to hit the wallets, but from whom? States first of all, it is the States which are in question. In the search for a diplomatic report, it is necessary that the States move “, believes Arnaud Montebourg. “The President of the Republic has proposed the restriction of visas, I have the impression that it does not work … There are no proposals on the subject, we must find one.”